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Bug 39502 - <tag /> should be treated as <tag></tag>
<tag /> should be treated as <tag></tag>
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-08-20 13:44 UTC by Michael M.
Modified: 2012-12-16 09:53 UTC (History)
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Description Michael M. 2012-08-20 13:44:13 UTC 
Users who are more familiar with XML than with HTML often write things like
<div style="clear:left;" />
The parser (function removeHTMLtags in Sanitizer.php) currently does this:
* If wgUseTidy is true, the pseudo-self-closed tag is left as is, and fixed by Tidy to <div style="clear:left;"></div> (or not, bug 38273)
* If wgUseTidy is false, the tag is flagged as "bad" and escaped to &lt;div style="clear:left;" /&gt;
This is inconsistent, and makes it difficult to import text from a wiki with Tidy into a wiki without.
So self-closed tags that should be in pairs should be closed automatically by the parser. The current behavior was introduced as fix for bug 5487.
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